In the Moroccan desert, a man extracts stones from a mountain and breaks them. His perpetual labour becomes an act of meditation, a demonstration of human dignity in its most austere form. Poetic and yet purely documentary, this desolate scene points out humanity’s place in the universe.

A man is imprisoned without knowing why. Where is he ? For how long ? Using images from abandoned detention centres for migrants in Greece and a reconstruction of a story , Blue Sky from Pain submerges us in a suffocating atmosphere, erased, in ruins…

The stories collected by Abdessamad El Montassir in the Sahara of southwestern Morocco are micro-histories that the artist renders visible. Achayef reveals views obscured by official accounts of History.